What is 'LSE'? | Freetrade Dictionary

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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Total Return

This is the measurement of a fund’s performance in a specific period.

After-hours trading

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Holding Period Return

The amount of money generated by an asset during the time that it was held by an investor..

Synthetic ETFs

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.

Base rate

What's the base rate?

Junk Bond

A form of debt investment that carries higher risk because of the likelihood that the issuer will default.

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

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